Toxic environment - Principal Consultant Capco Employee Review

1.0
May 3, 2024
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Pros

Honestly, I can't find anything.

Cons

I worked at CAPCO for only a year and half and it was my shortest time ever spent with a company and the main reason was the extreme toxic environment. The competition amongst consultants makes the company extremely dysfunctional and demotivating. Egos are at the same time inflated and fragile, making cooperation the rarest thing you'll see in the office. To exemplify, I was present when a colleague was in a call with a most senior consultant to get advices on a specific project. While the senior consultant was explaining something, my colleague mentioned he had had a problem (about the audio). Immediately, the senior consultant shouted (yes, shouted!) that if he was having a problem with anything that was being presented, he could ask someone else and stop wasting everyone's time. And hung out. That is how fragile and inflated egos can get over there. Additionally, in this 1.5 year, I had 3 different managers and 2 CEOs, so needless to say how lost we all felt.

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Capco Response
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We strive to foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative culture. In fact, consulting is about bringing the best ideas and different skillsets together and working as a team to deliver outstanding services to our clients. Consulting is project-based which means that employees may have different managers throughout the year. This is one of the reasons employees are assigned a coach, someone who works alongside the individual’s manager to provide career development support and advice on an ongoing basis. At a regional level, our APAC Managing Partner has led the region for a number of years and has a long tenure at Capco. At a global level, we recently had a change in CEO following over a decade of our previous CEO leading the firm. Our new CEO also has a long tenure at Capco and many years of experience in the industry.

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5.0
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